In 2017, the retired art historian Robert W. Cherny found himself unwittingly thrust into the maelstrom of a national controversy. Amid a public battle over whether a series of murals — some of which ...

Victor Arnautoff, a Russian-born muralist who worked with Diego Rivera in Mexico and supervised creation of the Coit Tower murals in San Francisco, was asked in 1934 to paint a mural for the city ...

The tower was completed in 1933, while artists painted the murals around its base (and repainted them due to some illustrations containing communist imagery) in 1934. The Coit Tower currently ...

New books, from Bay Area and Northern California authors, listed by release date. Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession By L. John Harris (Berkeley)Heyday Books, Nov. 5, 2024 Berkeley food writer L.

Round and round go 2,000 visitors a day at Coit Tower, marveling at the first-floor murals and walking by a double door that leads to the murals no ...

Demonstrators used an iconic San Francisco landmark to make a political statement, briefly hanging a massive banner off Coit Tower that read, "Jews Say: Let Gaza Live!" Lasers to light up SF's ...

Round and round go 2,000 visitors a day at Coit Tower, marveling at the first-floor murals and walking by a double door that leads to the murals no ...

Coit Tower is a tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933 at the request of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify ...

Diego Rivera, born in 1886, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Mural Movement of the 1920s. A member of the Communist party, he created popular political murals throughout Mexico that often ...

Wages were being slashed, strikes were taking place everywhere. Strong men were selling apples on street corners. The young artist who depended on his hands to eat was catapulted violently from the ...